Friday, March 03, 2006

Entering a monthly budget item that doesn't occur every month

I've added a slightly complex article to the site - Entering a monthly budget item that doesn't occur every month.

The scenario is to try and track items that occur monthly, but occasionally you don't have to pay them (e.g. UK Council Tax). If you want to get your budget right, especially in earlier versions of Microsoft Money which use the 'advanced budget' (i.e. from when Microsoft changed from the pay yourself first to the current budget).

Getting the budget right is something many people strive and fail to do - Money does things that you might not expect. Hopefully this will help some people get things closer to figures they can understand and trust.

As for me, bring back the pay yourself stuff, or bring on the 60% solution!!!

Thanks to Rednelle in the UK Newsgroup for most of the contents of the FAQ article

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